Special education and counselling centres

The school legislation (2015) regulates: Pupils with disabilities and with an ascertained entitlement to special educational offers, if their right to education can’t be fulfilled at mainstreaming schools, they attend a special education and counselling centre. Special education and counselling centres are differentiated according to focal points of support into 9 different categories. They provide their own educational programmes and support regular schools with special educational counselling, support, and education according to the needs. They teach according to different curricula from the mainstreaming curricula (according to special needs in learning; according to special needs in intellectual disabilities/ so called "geistige Entwicklung").